Onfoto published a new interview with Toshiyuki Terada (Product Planning, Olympus Imaging Corporation, Japan). Here are some of the interesting portions from the interview:
1) A built-in viewfinder is not exclusive for the OM-D line. Future PEN camera can have built-in viewfinder maintaining the current form factor.
2) The E-M5 cannot be considered like a professional camera because “Reliability for E-5 is much higher than the OM-D.” and “I can not tell you how many shots will slide OM-D, whereas for the E-5, we guarantee that at least 150,000.”
3) When asked if the sensor is from Panasonic he answered: “We do not disclose any information about the sensor manufacturer. Maybe so, and otherwise. We do not say yes or no.”
4) The E-M5 LCD rotates in only one axis to keep a compact size.
5) About the Four Thirds adapter: “this is one of the essential areas that we explore and study“.
6) About future Four Thirds products: “We already have started studying a successor of Olympus E-5.”
7) Olympus sees no difference between using 12bit or 14bit RAW files.
Summary: PEN with built-in viewifnder is likely, E-7 is on the roadmap and a professioanl OM-D is also very likely to be developed.
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